In major shuffle at the top, Ingram Micro Vice-President A/NZ and managing director, Jay Miley, is returning to the US to take up a the position of Vice-President and General Manager Advanced Technology. He will be replaced by Matt Sanderson, who is currently executive managing director of Ingram Micro United Kingdom and Ireland.

Distribution giant, Ingram Micro, is continuing to tweak its TechLink portal and back end SAP system, after going live about two months ago.

Industry experts reveal the hot market trends for the next 12 months including the growing datacentre market, converged infrastructure, cloud computing and virtual desktop infrastructure solutions

Ingram Micro global CEO, Greg Spierkel, was in Australia in January to meet with vendors and customers to set the distributor’s agenda for 2010. He, along with Australian vice-president, Jay Miley, caught up with NADIA CAMERON to discuss the company's strategy and investment priorities this year, the impact of HP and Cisco’s changing go-to-market strategies, cloud computing and the evolving role of distributors and channel.

Ingram Micro’s local chief has flagged execution of its new sales strategy and more services as cornerstones of its 2010 campaign.

Ingram Micro sales and marketing director, John Walters, has been made redundant following an overhaul of the distributor’s local sales and vendor operations.

Ingram’s local chief claims its acquisition of retail point-of-sale and data capture distributor, Vantex, will secure its position as the leading supplier in the region.

Ingram Micro is closing its Adelaide and ACT branches as part of a broader restructure of the group’s staff and operations.